I’m setting up a Zap from JotForm to Salesforce. However, some of the fields from my form align with 2 different objects in Salesforce. Is there a way to connect to 2 different objects and get the list of all fields in both of those objects?
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Best answer by nicksimard
Hi
Thanks for the screenshots and diagram! That error looks to be because you used something as the ID that was not the correct field (the Kat1 part). So Salesforce therefore can’t find the object in order to update it.
If you’ve got a single form submission and want to send some fields to one Salesforce object, and other fields to a different Salesforce object it should simply be a matter of using 2 separate Zaps or (more efficiently) one Zap with multiple steps.
If you were creating records in a single Zap:
Trigger: JotForm — New Submission
Action: Salesforce — Create Object 1, mapping only the fields you need
Action: Salesforce — Create Object 2, mapping only the fields you need
If you were updating records in a single Zap:
Trigger: JotForm — New Submission
Action: Salesforce — Find Object 1
Action: Salesforce — Update Object 1 using the ID of what you found, mapping only the fields you need
Action: Salesforce — Find Object 2
Action: Salesforce — Update Object 2 using the ID of what you found, mapping only the fields you need
Or if you were creating with multiple Zaps:
ZAP 1
Trigger: JotForm — New Submission
Action: Salesforce — Create Object ONE using the fields you need
ZAP 2
Trigger: JotForm — New Submission
Action: Salesforce — Create Object TWO using the fields you need
Does that seem like what you’re trying to do or have I misunderstood what you’re after?
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Hi
I’m not 100% sure that I understand what you’re trying to accomplish with JotForm and Salesforce. Would you be able to elaborate a little bit on that for me (screenshots could be helpful, as well)? If you do include screenshots please make sure not to include any personally identifiable information. Thanks!
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I’m not sure a screen shot would be helpful as I’m not receiving any errors but I drew up the attached image to demonstrate the mapping. I was working with a much more complex form but dummed it down until I can get it to work. From the form we want to use, we want to send certain fields to Contact Object and other fields to a Custom object. As JotForm doesn’t support Custom objects in Salesforce, I thought I would be able to do that with Zapier.
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I’ve made what I hope is progress on this. I set it up so that Jotform send over the Contact Object data, so now I’m trying to use Zapier only for the Volunteer Custom Object. But I need help interpreting this. I this telling me that 2 records are being sent, the first being what I want transferred but what is the list below that? Looks like most of the same fields but all are null? See additional image below.
I think this means that the Volunteer Info C record doesn’t reflect that name so it can’t find the record in that Object, although it is present in the Contacts Object.
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Hi
Thanks for the screenshots and diagram! That error looks to be because you used something as the ID that was not the correct field (the Kat1 part). So Salesforce therefore can’t find the object in order to update it.
If you’ve got a single form submission and want to send some fields to one Salesforce object, and other fields to a different Salesforce object it should simply be a matter of using 2 separate Zaps or (more efficiently) one Zap with multiple steps.
If you were creating records in a single Zap:
Trigger: JotForm — New Submission
Action: Salesforce — Create Object 1, mapping only the fields you need
Action: Salesforce — Create Object 2, mapping only the fields you need
If you were updating records in a single Zap:
Trigger: JotForm — New Submission
Action: Salesforce — Find Object 1
Action: Salesforce — Update Object 1 using the ID of what you found, mapping only the fields you need
Action: Salesforce — Find Object 2
Action: Salesforce — Update Object 2 using the ID of what you found, mapping only the fields you need
Or if you were creating with multiple Zaps:
ZAP 1
Trigger: JotForm — New Submission
Action: Salesforce — Create Object ONE using the fields you need
ZAP 2
Trigger: JotForm — New Submission
Action: Salesforce — Create Object TWO using the fields you need
Does that seem like what you’re trying to do or have I misunderstood what you’re after?
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Thanks Nick, I kind of figured that out on my own before you had the chance to respond. I know have a complicated form set up and it’s working! At least 97%. I found it works best to send the Contact Object fields directly from JotForm and only the custom fields thru Zapier. I’m still having issues with the phone numbers from JotForm to Salesforce and am planning to work on transferring those thru Zapier tomorrow.
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